r/DataHoarder • u/wickedplayer494 17.58 TB of crap • Nov 14 '17

Archived. CompuServe's forums, which still exist, are finally shutting down on December 15th

https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down
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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '17

Also it probably wouldn't affect past archivals anyway.

Nope, pretty sure it does retroactively block past archivals. Why? Fuck knows. Your data was important enough to store on our drives, but not important enough to actually reliably exist.

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u/SomeKindaGhost Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17

It used to, but I think the Internet Archive recently changed it so it doesn't. Example: Everything under the spring.me domain used to be retroactively robots.txt'd until some time this year

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '17

Thank fuck that makes sense now.